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I predict that McCain will drop Palin after the election. He just wants to win; he's not thinking she can run the country....really. How could he choose someone with less time serving something larger than a town than Obama served the state of Illinois? I think the Republicans are kidding themselves that credentials don't matter--and certainly McCain will either sideline Gov. Palin after the election (if he wins) reducing Cheney's job back to its ambassadorial role, or cut her. It's got to be flattering to be picked, but the Republicans have said with their choice of Palin that Anyone can do the job of the Vice-President. This is like watching oil workers become astronauts in two weeks on Armageddon. It's insulting to think that anyone who had no idea what a VP did a month ago could step forward as someone competent for the job. If that's how things are done, hey I want to be McCain's heart specialist. Or Guilliani's divorce lawyer. Or Palin's babysitter. Maybe qualifications would matter then.

To anyone who thinks Obama did anything in the Illinois legislature, please do some homework. He did nothing. Being a sponsor on a bill just means he added his name to the list.

What was that, sally? It wasn't hard at all to find examples of Obama being bipartisan, and quotes of Republicans and Democrats and independents endorsing him because of being bipartisan.

What would be impossible, sally, is for you to describe Sarah Palin as bipartisan. She was a divisive, partisan, un-American embarrassment to McCain. American is George Washington, who hated political parties. American is Abe Lincoln, the great uniter.

McCain had some bipartisan credentials -- that's right I'm happy to credit him, with respect, for what he is due -- until he chose Palin for VP and had her deliver that divisive speech. McCain has chosen to divide America, putting his party first and our country last.

Un-American is the political party Todd and Sarah Palin supported and which he registered with until 2002: the separatist Alaskan Independence Party which wants to rip a star off our flag. Un-American is Palin's insulting, condescending tone in response to Obama and Biden treating her with decency.

sally I would be happy to treat you with decency just the same, to respect your statements here, if only you had made any statement aside from your unfounded imagination that it was difficult to find evidence of Obama as a bipartisan. Again, it was easy to find evidence, so easy that I'm happy to offer you more, free of charge:

"Obama worked with Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn on the Coburn-Obama bill. The bill set up a database that tracks where federal dollars are being spent and which contractors receive federal funding."

That's right, it was popularly known as the Coburn-Obama Bill. sally I do wonder why you would come here to ABC News and post lies which are so easily disproved, suggesting Obama is not bipartisan.

Indeed the point of this legislation is to make Washington, DC more accountable for the money being lobbied for and sent to states like Alaska and villages like Wasilla, Alaska, where hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were lobbied for by Sarah Palin.

If you're an extremist and you like business as usual in Washington, like Keating Five lobbying and loan scandals and lobbyists and infidelity, then maybe you voted for the Clintons and McCain-Palin is definitely your ticket, this go around. Divide and conquer! Never mind what is good for this nation, win at all costs!

If you're a mainstream Republican, mainstream Democrat, or mainstream American, you'll find more common decency, stronger family values, and less partisanship from Obama-Biden.

The McCain camp obviously doesn't have a lot of confidence with Palin, like Hart. According to Time online, she won't be doing anymore interviews. It looks like she'll be keeping company with the image makers and readings for most of the campaign.

How did the "Lugar-Obama Act" which was an update of the "Nunn-Lugar bill"....
become the "Obama-Lugar Act"?????

hmmmmmm...

Brian:

Your information came from a person who has sent derisive letters before...
Yet Sarah's approval rating is still the highest in the nation!

Is it possible that a little too much credibility is leaning on ONE PERSON's input?

Did anyone "vette" the letter writer?

Gary Hart should apply his standards to the Democrat candidate too. According to his standards, Barack Obama shouldn't have been nominated. Gary Hart proved that he only looks at women as playthings by his own actions, so there are no woman that rise to his standards.

brian, If that is the only example you can come up with of Obama the "bipartisan" it is not very impressive, sorry, I know you are trying very hard. Just does not cut the mustard.

Sorry tim, I misread your earlier post.

To your actual point then, Sen. Obama has given Sen. Nunn a lot of credit on many occasions, and Nunn has returned the favor by crediting and endorsing Obama for his critical role in the Senate. Again tim, although this time with respect to Nunn rather than Lugar, you do not need to look very far to find evidence that you are wrong to criticize Obama on this point. Obama is a genuine bi-partisan warrior in the U.S. Senate (as he was in the Illinois Senate for multiple terms, before).

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Nunn, who chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1987 to 1995, called Obama "the best choice to lead our nation".

Both Nunn and Boren will serve on the Illinois senator's National Security Foreign Policy Team.

BG

Obama said on O'Reilly “Obama: Surge Succeeded Beyond ‘Wildest Dreams’” What?
I just don't know where Obama is coming from anymore.

erin...he was involved in either writing or sponsoring over 4000 bills in the Illinois Senate and over 100 in the US Senate. You need to remember how our government works. Sometimes it takes years to get bills passed and even longer when you are in the minority party. Obviously Obama has been involved in less than McCain but the ones he's been involved in are major and important legislation.

I am reading these posts on what bills Obama co-authored vs co sponsored. The bottom line is that all Obama supporters can come up with is one bill in the US and two bills in the illinos Senate that Obama had a lot to do with. not very impressive for someone running for President.

thank you mary.

brian, I Did not say anything about Obama giving Lugar credit. What I said is that Obama has not given Nunn any credit for his work as the co-author of Lugar-Nunn bill. The Lugar-Obama bill is an update of the Lugar-Nunn bill. The original point is that Obama has not been an author of any legislation. Co-sponsor is not the same as co-author. Facts are stubborn thing.

terry...unlike Palin, Obama knows that the banning of books is illegal according to the Constitution of the United States. Remember he taught Constitutional Law. Palin apparently doesn't know what the Constitution says or thinks it doesn't applies to her. And the story about her trying to ban books and fire the librarian is true.

Sorry terry, but you're wrong to suggest Obama is trying to ban any books. There is a significant difference between banning a book and criticizing a book.

Obama has criticized some books for not being well enough researched. It's his opinion and he is entitled to it.

Palin tried to abuse her power to ban books from the library in her town of 4,000 residents (when she was mayor, now there are 9,000 residents).

When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin threatened to fire her. The people of the town came to the librarian's defense, and Palin failed to fire her, but that Palin tried to get books banned and people fired is well documented.

Now, Palin is under investigation for illegal abuse of power in more than one case, one as mayor and two as governor.

Palin is as divisive now as she was then, right at the time America needs to be united. Obama/Biden: country first!

RCP shows the new CBS poll -- Obama and McCain tied.

Freedom on Speech -- Obama's thugs tried to sue to stop the release of the Anneburg Challange Papers ---

And Obama finally ----

"The troop surge in Iraq has been more successful than anyone could have imagined, Barack Obama conceded Thursday in his first-ever interview on FOX News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.”

kellyanne:
"Sorry, she used "First Dude" when referring to her husband. I just updated the quote in deference to McCain...."

Sorry...... my foot!

She described McCain's wife Cindy, a woman who is a stateswoman in her own right and who has generously given of her money and herself for eons, a name that begins with a "b" and ends with an "o".... which spells B O ... which was not the name she was called ...but which DOES identify you leader.

For the doubters, the trip was in August of 2005. All I did was search "Obama Lugar Russia". You McCain people really need to get up to speed on the internet.

jennie, If anyone is into banning books, its Obama. Obama and his thugs are busily trying to smear the author of the Obama Nation, Corsi, so no one will buy his book.